This chapter examines the differences between the official ideology and ideology from below of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). It re-evaluates arguments about ...
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This chapter examines the differences between the official ideology and ideology from below of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). It re-evaluates arguments about the basic difference between the official ideology of labourism and Marxism, and the ideology of the rank and file members of both parties. It also analyses the symbolism of the parties' festival culture from accounts of oral history and from popular novels and party literature.Less

The Working-Class Parties and Ideology

Stefan Berger

Published in print: 1994-12-15

This chapter examines the differences between the official ideology and ideology from below of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). It re-evaluates arguments about the basic difference between the official ideology of labourism and Marxism, and the ideology of the rank and file members of both parties. It also analyses the symbolism of the parties' festival culture from accounts of oral history and from popular novels and party literature.

This chapter examines the evolution of Wilkinson's ideas and her affiliations to left organisations. From the organisational viewpoint, Wilkinson went through a series of left groups that frame her ...
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This chapter examines the evolution of Wilkinson's ideas and her affiliations to left organisations. From the organisational viewpoint, Wilkinson went through a series of left groups that frame her political ideas: the ILP, the University Socialist Federation, the National Guilds League, the CPGB, the Left-Wing Movement, the ILP and the Fabian Society. Particularly significant in this evolution was her membership of the CPGB (1920-4) and her relationship with Communism. This chapter charts her changing attitude to the Soviet Union and the chronology of her political itinerary. She underwent a radicalisation associated with the revolutionary ferment from 1917 to 1923. Her ideas drifted thereafter until economic crisis and events in India and Germany prompted her once again to adopt the language of revolution and class struggle. Her final break with the Soviet Union occurred with the Hitler-Stalin pack and the Winter War against Finland.Less

Socialist ideas and movements

Matt Perry

Published in print: 2014-06-30

This chapter examines the evolution of Wilkinson's ideas and her affiliations to left organisations. From the organisational viewpoint, Wilkinson went through a series of left groups that frame her political ideas: the ILP, the University Socialist Federation, the National Guilds League, the CPGB, the Left-Wing Movement, the ILP and the Fabian Society. Particularly significant in this evolution was her membership of the CPGB (1920-4) and her relationship with Communism. This chapter charts her changing attitude to the Soviet Union and the chronology of her political itinerary. She underwent a radicalisation associated with the revolutionary ferment from 1917 to 1923. Her ideas drifted thereafter until economic crisis and events in India and Germany prompted her once again to adopt the language of revolution and class struggle. Her final break with the Soviet Union occurred with the Hitler-Stalin pack and the Winter War against Finland.

This chapter examines the life of David Shackleton as a public man. It highlights his arresting physical presence which led the press to give him the nicknames ‘the giant M.P.,’ ‘the Labour giant,’ ...
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This chapter examines the life of David Shackleton as a public man. It highlights his arresting physical presence which led the press to give him the nicknames ‘the giant M.P.,’ ‘the Labour giant,’ and ‘the Lancashire giant.’ It describes his working style as a politician, trade unionist, and civil servant and argues that his outlook on the public issues of his time exemplifies what has been called the ‘ideology of labourism’.Less

The Public Man

Published in print: 2000-10-01

This chapter examines the life of David Shackleton as a public man. It highlights his arresting physical presence which led the press to give him the nicknames ‘the giant M.P.,’ ‘the Labour giant,’ and ‘the Lancashire giant.’ It describes his working style as a politician, trade unionist, and civil servant and argues that his outlook on the public issues of his time exemplifies what has been called the ‘ideology of labourism’.

Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, Public and Welfare

Chapter 5 investigates the factors and circumstances that allowed the workers to switch from managing the effects of precarious employment to challenging its causes, first through the founding of an ...
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Chapter 5 investigates the factors and circumstances that allowed the workers to switch from managing the effects of precarious employment to challenging its causes, first through the founding of an association of daladala workers, and then through a partnership with the Tanzanian transport trade union. Drawing on correspondence between the Transport Union and the workers’ association, and on interviews with the leaders of the workers’ association, of the trade union, and with transport workers themselves, the chapter explores the strategy chosen by workers to make demands for rights at work on employers and the state. The analysis stresses the significance of this case study by engaging with the wider literature on globalization and its impact on labour possibilities, and more specifically on how to organize the unorganized in the informal economy and the goals which workers’ political mobilization can (or cannot) achieve in increasingly liberalized and informalized economies.Less

The Politics of Labour 2 : Struggling for Rights at Work (1997–2014)

Matteo Rizzo

Published in print: 2017-06-01

Chapter 5 investigates the factors and circumstances that allowed the workers to switch from managing the effects of precarious employment to challenging its causes, first through the founding of an association of daladala workers, and then through a partnership with the Tanzanian transport trade union. Drawing on correspondence between the Transport Union and the workers’ association, and on interviews with the leaders of the workers’ association, of the trade union, and with transport workers themselves, the chapter explores the strategy chosen by workers to make demands for rights at work on employers and the state. The analysis stresses the significance of this case study by engaging with the wider literature on globalization and its impact on labour possibilities, and more specifically on how to organize the unorganized in the informal economy and the goals which workers’ political mobilization can (or cannot) achieve in increasingly liberalized and informalized economies.

The characterization of Australia as a wage-earners’ welfare state (Frank Castles) has encouraged some scholars to argue that the Australian model remained necessarily labourist and incapable of ...
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The characterization of Australia as a wage-earners’ welfare state (Frank Castles) has encouraged some scholars to argue that the Australian model remained necessarily labourist and incapable of developing in a social democratic direction. This chapter shows that World War I had a far-reaching effect on the scale of Australia’s welfare state, and that World War II profoundly changed both its scale and structure in a more social democratic direction. Australia’s federal system and its written constitution have constrained centralist and socialist initiatives, particularly desired by the Australian Labor Party. When Labor returned to power in October 1941, Australia was in its second world war, and Japan’s aggression was only months away. World War II presented Labor with the constitutional and political scope to change the foundations and reach of the welfare state to the extent no other event is likely to have afforded.Less

Reinforcements for the Wage-Earners’ Welfare State? : The Effects of the Two World Wars on Australia’s Model of Welfare

Christopher LloydTim Battin

Published in print: 2018-07-05

The characterization of Australia as a wage-earners’ welfare state (Frank Castles) has encouraged some scholars to argue that the Australian model remained necessarily labourist and incapable of developing in a social democratic direction. This chapter shows that World War I had a far-reaching effect on the scale of Australia’s welfare state, and that World War II profoundly changed both its scale and structure in a more social democratic direction. Australia’s federal system and its written constitution have constrained centralist and socialist initiatives, particularly desired by the Australian Labor Party. When Labor returned to power in October 1941, Australia was in its second world war, and Japan’s aggression was only months away. World War II presented Labor with the constitutional and political scope to change the foundations and reach of the welfare state to the extent no other event is likely to have afforded.